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In places around the world where the grid hasn't been extended, they're still figuring out ways to power their gadgets. We could learn a thing or two. Globally, there are 5.3 billion mobile phone subscribers--but according to Green Power For Mobile by The GSMA Development Fund, nearly 500 million people worldwide do not have a means of charging a mobile phone at home.

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A country's energy consumption of gasoline, coal and other fossil fuels is often the attention-grabber in climate discussions. But the energy to make and deliver consumer goods is a more hidden carbon culprit, a recent study says. Steven Davis, a postdoctoral student in the Department of Global Ecology at the Carnegie Institute of Washington, tracked the supply chain of greenhouse gases from goods traded internationally in 2004

When does a performer's “endorsement” of Occupy Wall Street cross over into exploitation? Music and protest have long gone hand in blistered hand

Each of us has a lens through which we see the world, but we have the power to view the world through other lenses.

To create what will be, you must remove yourself from the constant concern for what already is.

At a recent Startup Weekend event, an impromptu gathering with young women in tech brought up some interesting questions. My e-mail marketing company, VerticalResponse, recently partnered with Startup Weekend , an amazing event where entrepreneurs get a little over two days to come up with an idea, pitch it to a crowd and work on one of about 20 ideas selected by their peers. Participants choose whether or not they want to participate on any of the 20 teams and they start to solidify the idea of a product

Sure, they're fun places to work.

Through a meticulous restoration process, Elding Oscarson converted two 19th Century buildings into No Picnic's headquarters by installing reflecting glass walls.

The former railway station in Madrid's city center was left largely raw in its reconstruction as an outlet of The Hub, an office-share network for social entrepreneurs. Once a garden, then a railway station, then a garage, this concrete structure today houses the Madrid outlet of The Hub, an office-share network for social entrepreneurs

The goal of this "primordial" creative business lounge is to keep workers at ease. And despite its clean white design, nature is never far away at the Thinkgarden in Milan.

There's an indoor skateboarding bowl, a converted railway station in Milan, a converted 1940s warehouse, and a tiny atelier open to the sky and earth in Japan.

Inc.com's Christine Lagorio talks with Marc Kushner of Architizer about the 2011 World's Coolest Offices. As we enter the second year of honoring the coolest offices in the world, we decided to take a step back and examine what "cool"—as applied to a workplace—really entails

Wiretap Affair Could Oust Murdochs . A key shareholder group is maneuvering to oust Rupert Murdoch and his two sons from the management of News Corp., calling for the board to eject the men and for an independent investigation into the phone hacking scandal --the aftereffects of which are still echoing around the world.